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enJunior researchers exhibit work through posters, flash talkshttps://www.osc.edu/press/junior_researchers_exhibit_work_through_posters_flash_talks
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">OSC and SUG sponsor inaugural HPC research demonstration competition</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/junior_researchers_exhibit_work_through_posters_flash_talks"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2014/images/highlights/Ohio_Supercomputer_Center_icon%20copy.jpg?itok=fj2J3cZK" width="100" height="100" alt="OSC logo" title="OSC logo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-12-05T00:00:00-05:00">Friday, December 5, 2014</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>Research projects featuring a wide range of scientific interests, such as ultra-intense lasers, pesticides and polymers, were featured at the first-ever poster session and flash talk competition at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) Dec. 4.</p>
<p>The competition was held during the semi-annual meeting of the Statewide Users Group. SUG is a volunteer group comprised of the scientists and engineers who provide OSC’s executive director with program and policy advice and direction “to ensure a productive environment for research.” SUG was instituted in 1986, a year prior to the creation of OSC, to advise administrators and policy makers on their planning and acquisition activities for the Center.</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:right"><img alt="" height="188" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/IMG_2660.JPG" width="250" /><figcaption>Graduate students and post-doctoral staff members explain their research posters to attendees and judges at the first such competition to be held at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.</figcaption></figure><p>“We chose to hold these poster and flash talk competitions in conjunction with SUG so that we could highlight even more of the impressive work that is being done on OSC systems,” said David Hudak, Ph.D., director of supercomputer services. “These venues also give SUG and OSC staff members a great opportunity for increased interaction with our younger investigators – graduate students and post-doctoral staff – so that we can better understand their computational successes and challenges.”</p>
<p>Prior to the competitions, Evelyn M. Goldfield, Ph.D., program director for the chemistry division of the National Science Foundation, delivered the keynote address, “NSF support for High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure.” Ray Leto, president of TotalSim USA, followed this with an invited talk, “TotalSim USA and the Ohio Supercomputer Center.”</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:left"><img alt="Matthew McMahon" height="107" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/McMahon.jpg" width="150" /><figcaption>Matthew McMahon with Ohio State Professor Douglass Schumacher, Ph.D., (left) and David Hudak, Ph.D., OSC director of supercomputer services.</figcaption></figure><p>Matthew McMahon of The Ohio State University won first place in flash talk competition and Katharine Cahill, also from Ohio State, took first place in the poster competition. They each were awarded 5,000 resource units of time on OSC supercomputer systems, and their work will be featured next year in the Center’s annual research report. Second-place winners were awarded 2,500 units of supercomputer time.</p>
<p>McMahon spoke on “First PIC simulations modeling the interaction of ultra-intense lasers with sublaser with sub-micron, liquid crystal targets,” a project credited to McMahon and his co-authors: Patrick Poole (Ohio State), Chris Willis (Ohio State), Ginevra Cochran (Ohio State), C. David Andereck (Ohio State) and Douglass Schumacher (Ohio State). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded McMahon’s project.</p>
<p>McMahon described his work: “We recently introduced liquid crystal films as on-demand, variable thickness (50 – 5000 nanometers), inexpensive targets for intense laser experiments. Here we present the first particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of short pulse laser excitation of liquid crystal targets using the PIC code LSP. In order to accurately model the target evolution, a low starting temperature and field ionization model are employed. This is essential as large starting temperatures lead to expansion of the target causing significant reduction of the target density before the laser pulse can interact. We also present an investigation of the modification of laser pulses by very thin targets.”</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:right"><img alt="Katharine Cahill" height="107" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/Cahill.jpg" width="150" /><figcaption>Katharine Cahill with David Hudak, Ph.D., OSC director of supercomputer services.</figcaption></figure><p>Cahill’s poster featured the project, “Molecular docking study of organophosphorus pesticides with G3C9 and its variants,” a project credited to Cahill, as well as her co-authors: Kiran Doddapaneni (Ohio State), Shameema Oottikkal (Ohio State), Thomas J. Magliery (Ohio State) and Christopher Hadad (Ohio State). The National Institutes of Health funded Cahill’s project.</p>
<p>Cahill’s abstract read: “Organophosphorus (OP) compounds are highly toxic chemicals capable of inhibiting the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine by acetylcholinesterase. Catalytic hydrolysis of OPs with enzymatic bio-scavengers, such as paraoxonase (PON1), is an active avenue of investigation towards the treatment of OP exposure. G3C9 is a recombinant PON1 enzyme, which was developed for its improved solubility and has some activity against OP pesticides.</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:left"><img alt="Ginevra Cochran" height="107" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/Cochran.jpg" width="150" /><figcaption>Ginevra Cochran with Ohio State Professor Douglass Schumacher, Ph.D., (right) and David Hudak, Ph.D., OSC director of supercomputer services.</figcaption></figure><p>"In this study, molecular docking simulations were performed on G3C9 and several of its variants. Docking analysis shows that, the V346A mutation significantly improves OP binding to the active site compared to G3C9. Several OP compounds with bulky leaving groups, including paraoxon and diazoxon, were studied to understand both the efficiency of binding as well as the orientation of the guest in the active site.”</p>
<p>Ginevra E. Cochran, of Ohio State, won second place in the flash talk competition, discussing “Convergence criteria for PIC simulations of electrons in an ultraintense laser field.” The project was credited to Cochran and her co-authors: Alexey V. Arefiev (University of Texas-Austin), Douglass W. Schumacher (Ohio State), A.P.L. Robinson (Science &amp; Technology Facilities Council) and Guangye Chen (Los Alamos National Laboratory). The Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration funded Cochran’s project.</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:right"><img alt="Anne Shim" height="107" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/Shim.jpg" width="150" /><figcaption>Anne Shim with David Hudak, Ph.D., OSC director of supercomputer services.</figcaption></figure><p>Anne Shim, of Ohio State, tied for second place in the poster session with her project, “Simulations of hard nanoparticle encapsulation during polymer micelle formation.” The project was credited to Shim, as well as her research mentors: Jonathan Brown (Ohio State) and Lisa Hall (Ohio State). The National Science Foundation funded Shim’s project.</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:left"><img alt="Nikolas Antolin" height="107" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/Antolin.jpg" width="150" /><figcaption>Nikolas Antolin with David Hudak, Ph.D., OSC director of supercomputer services.</figcaption></figure><p>Nikolas Antolin, of Ohio State, also tied for second place in the poster session with his project, “Phonon induced magnetism in diamagnetic materials.” The project was credited to Antolin and his co-authors, Oscar Restrepo (Ohio State) and Wolfgang Windl (Ohio State). The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Army Research Office funded Antolin’s project.</p>
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<p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/computational-science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Computational Science</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/outreach" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Outreach</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Research</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:07:34 +0000jabel4031 at https://www.osc.eduOSU researcher wins supercomputing award for cancer researchhttps://www.osc.edu/press/osu_researcher_wins_supercomputing_award_for_cancer_research
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">High performance computing helps unlock how virus might spark cancer</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/osu_researcher_wins_supercomputing_award_for_cancer_research"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2014/images/highlights/IDC_PMS4colorversion-1square.jpg?itok=xK-05dsZ" width="100" height="100" alt="IDC logo" title="IDC logo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">New Orleans, Louisiana (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-11-18T00:00:00-05:00">Tuesday, November 18, 2014</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>Researchers at The Ohio State University were recognized today at the <a href="http://sc14.supercomputing.org/">SC14</a> conference for the supercomputer industry for studies that leverage high performance computers to help unlock the origins of cancer development.</p>
<p><img alt="IDC logo" height="74" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/IDC_PMS4colorversion-1.jpg" style="margin-left:1em; float:right" width="224" />In revealing today the eighth round of recipients of the <a href="https://www.hpcuserforum.com/innovationaward/">HPC Innovation Excellence Award</a>, International Data Corporation (<a href="http://www.idc.com/">IDC</a>) recognized a research team led by David Symer, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Symer and his colleagues recently leveraged resources of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to determine a new way that certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) might spark cancer development – by disrupting the human DNA sequence with repeating loops when the virus is inserted into host-cell DNA as it replicates.</p>
<p>“Having our research work acknowledged through this ‘Big Data’ award is quite an honor. It reflects the tremendous support that my team (especially Dr. Keiko Akagi, and also Jingfeng Li, Maura Gillison and our additional colleagues) received,” said Symer. “Support for this work has come from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and of course from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). We wouldn't have been able to conduct this research without access to all the state-of-the-art, high performance computers and technical support that OSC has provided for our use.”</p>
<p><img alt="David Symer, M.D., Ph.D." height="211" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/110719Symer%20David_26671.jpg" style="margin-right:1em; float:left" width="150" />Symer’s results shed new light on the potentially catastrophic steps leading all the way from initial viral infection to development of an HPV-associated cancer. In more recent, unpublished studies, his research group has confirmed that HPV looping events have occurred in about half of the primary HPV-associated human cancers studied.</p>
<p>The main goals of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award program are to showcase return on investment (ROI) and scientific success stories involving HPC; to help other users better understand the benefits of adopting HPC and justify HPC investments, especially for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs); to demonstrate the value of HPC to funding bodies and politicians; and to expand public support for increased HPC investments.</p>
<p>“IDC research has shown that HPC can accelerate innovation cycles greatly and in many cases can generate ROI. The award program aims to collect a large set of success stories across many research disciplines, industries, and application areas,” said <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF003847">Chirag Dekate</a>, research manager of HPC at IDC. “The winners achieved clear success in applying HPC to greatly improve business ROI, scientific advancement, and/or engineering successes. Many of the achievements also directly benefit society.”</p>
<p>Brian Guilfoos, HPC client services manager at OSC, was in New Orleans attending the SC14 conference and was on hand today to receive the IDC recognition on behalf of Symer’s group.</p>
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<p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:51:22 +0000jabel4022 at https://www.osc.eduItalian physicist delivered 2013 Pitzer Lecture in Theoretical Chemistryhttps://www.osc.edu/press/italian_physicist_delivered_2013_pitzer_lecture_in_theoretical_chemistry
<div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/italian_physicist_delivered_2013_pitzer_lecture_in_theoretical_chemistry"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/ParinelloMichele.jpg?itok=9H1ki74w" width="75" height="100" alt="Michele Parinello" title="Michele Parinello" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-11-26T00:00:00-05:00">Tuesday, November 26, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>Michele Parrinello, Ph.D., of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, delivered the 2013 Pitzer Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry on Nov. 25, on the main campus of The Ohio State University. Parrinello’s address was titled <em>Atomistic Computer Simulations: Past, Present, and Future. </em></p>
<p>The annual Pitzer Lecture is organized and supported by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and the Ohio State department of chemistry.<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/ParinelloMichele.jpg"><img alt="Michele Parinello" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/ParinelloMichele.jpg" style="width: 120px; height: 160px; margin: 10px; float: left;" title="Michele Parinello" /></a></p>
<p>The Italian physicist Parrinello is considered a world leader in the development and application of simulation techniques. He is particularly known for his work on molecular dynamics (the computer simulation of physical movements of atoms and molecules). Parrinello and Roberto Car were awarded the Dirac Medal and the Sidney Fernbach Award in 2009 for their continuing development of the Car-Parrinello method, first proposed in their seminal 1985 paper “Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory.”</p>
<p>Parrinello received his Laurea in physics from the University of Bologna in 1968. After working at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, the IBM research lab in Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, he was appointed professor of computational science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 2001, a position he also holds at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. In 2004 Parrinello was elected to Great Britain's Royal Society. In 2011 he was awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize. He currently has an h-index of 108, which is one of the highest among all scientists.</p>
<p>The Pitzer Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry recognizes the many contributions of Russell M. Pitzer, Ph.D., professor emeritus of the department of chemistry at Ohio State. In 1987, Pitzer co-founded and served as acting associate director of OSC.</p>
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<p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/outreach" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Outreach</a></div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:22:54 +0000susan3535 at https://www.osc.eduOSC engineer wins grant to attend international conferencehttps://www.osc.edu/press/osc_engineer_wins_grant_to_attend_international_conference
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">SC Broader Engagement Program seeks to engage underrepresented groups</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/osc_engineer_wins_grant_to_attend_international_conference"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/Patricia_Carey_SMALL.jpg?itok=rY1F7VlW" width="75" height="100" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-09-12T00:00:00-04:00">Thursday, September 12, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>Patricia Carey, a senior systems developer and engineer at The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), has received a grant to fund her travel to SC13, the annual conference of the international supercomputing community, and her participation in the conference’s weeklong technical program.</p>
<p>As a member of the HPC (high performance computing) Operations group, Carey manages the HPC configuration management software and monitoring software, and she performs systems administration on OSC’s HPC clusters. She also was instrumental in developing components of OSC’s OnDemand platform, an environment for presenting HPC resources through a web browser interface.<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/Patricia_Carey_MED.jpg"><img alt="Patricia_Carey_SMALL.jpg" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/Patricia_Carey_SMALL.jpg" style="width: 188px; height: 250px; margin: 10px; float: right;" title="Patricia Carey" /></a></p>
<p>OSC’s flagship HPC system is the HP-Intel Xeon Oakley Cluster, an array of 8,300+ CPUs and 128 NVIDIA GPUs that can achieve a total peak performance of 154 teraflops, tech-speak for performing 154 trillion calculations per second.</p>
<p>“I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to network at SC13 with my peers at other centers from across the country,” said Carey. “I intend to gather as much information as I can about where the HPC industry is going and what I need to do to keep current with my professional skillset.”</p>
<p>Carey’s grant was awarded through the SC13 Broader Engagement Program, which placed her in the Superhighway Track for having prior experience in the HPC community. The goal of the program is to increase the participation of individuals who have been traditionally under-represented in HPC. Consideration is given to applicants in research, education and industry who belong to groups that traditionally have been under-represented in HPC, including women, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Pacific Islanders and people with disabilities.</p>
<p>“We expect the majority of funded Superhighway participants to have HPC experience, to participate in the SC13 Tutorials, and to at least partially fund themselves,” according to the SC13 web site. “[They] will benefit from a diverse line-up of top-flight speakers from industry, academia, and government laboratories.”</p>
<p>Carey holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from East Tennessee State University (ETSU). Prior to OSC, Carey worked as a graduate teaching assistant and graduate research assistant at UT. She also took part in a Summer Research Experience in computational earth science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Earlier, she was a teaching assistant and undergraduate mentor at ETSU.</p>
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<p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/education-and-training" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Education and Training</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:46:58 +0000jabel3483 at https://www.osc.eduOSC hosts first meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group https://www.osc.edu/press/osc_hosts_first_meeting_of_the_mvapich_users_group
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Network-Based Computing Research Group created HPC communications library</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/osc_hosts_first_meeting_of_the_mvapich_users_group"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/MVAPICH-Logo-220x125_0.jpg?itok=ghiWRPSq" width="100" height="57" alt="MVAPICH logo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-08-27T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, August 27, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) hosted the first meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group, a broad array of users, system administrators, researchers, engineers and students who share an interest in the MVAPICH open-source library of communications standards used internally by many high performance computing (HPC) systems.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/DKPanda.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/DKPanda.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 188px; margin: 10px; float: left;" title="D.K. Panda, Ph.D." /></a>The event, held Aug. 26-27 at OSC’s BALE Theater, was organized by Dhabaleswar K. “DK” Panda, Ph.D., a professor of computer science at The Ohio State University. Panda is a longtime user of OSC HPC resources and a partner with the center on several research projects.</p>
<p>Panda’s Network-Based Computing Research Group developed and enhances the popular HPC system software package. The two-day event included talks from experts in the field, presentations from the MVAPICH2 team on tuning and optimization strategies for various components, trouble-shooting guidelines, contributed presentations, an open-microphone session and an interactive/hands-on session with the MVAPICH2 developers.</p>
<p>Message Passing Interface (MPI), the lingua franca of scientific parallel computing, is a standard for the communications library that a parallel application uses to share data among tasks and is available on a variety of parallel computer platforms. On the hardware side, InfiniBand is a widely used processor interconnect favored for its open standards and high performance.<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/MVAPICH-Logo-220x125.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/MVAPICH-Logo-220x125.jpg" style="width: 220px; height: 125px; margin: 10px; float: right;" title="MVAPICH logo" /></a></p>
<p>MVAPICH2 is a popular implementation of the MPI-3 standard prevalent on InfiniBand-based systems. In addition to OSC’s HP-Intel Oakley Cluster and IBM 1350 Glenn Cluster, Panda’s communications library is powering several of the world’s fastest supercomputers, including the Stampede system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin; the Pleiades array at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames Research Center near Mountain View, Calif.; and Tsubame 2.0 cluster at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the at Tokyo Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>The MVAPICH Users Group event is sponsored by OSC, Mellanox Technologies, Advanced Clustering Technologies and The Ohio State University.</p>
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<hr /><p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
<p>The <strong>Network-Based Computing Research Group</strong> at The Ohio State University is led by Dr. Dhabaleswar K. Panda and investigates modern networking technologies, including InfiniBand and 10GE/iWARP. The group is currently collaborating with National Laboratories and leading InfiniBand and 10GE/iWARP companies on designing various subsystems of next generation high-end systems. For more, visit <a href="http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/">nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/cyberinfrastructure" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Cyberinfrastructure</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/education-and-training" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Education and Training</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:13:00 +0000jabel3445 at https://www.osc.eduTeam enters national US Ignite innovation competition; wins award for best advanced manufacturing apphttps://www.osc.edu/press/team_enters_national_us_ignite_innovation_competition_wins_award_for_best_advanced
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">App focuses on transformative technologies to advance industry, education</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/team_enters_national_us_ignite_innovation_competition_wins_award_for_best_advanced"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/white_background_highlight.jpg?itok=cyvkNH27" width="100" height="100" alt="Simulation" title="“Simulation-as-a-Service for Advanced Manufacturing”" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-07-02T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, July 2, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>A team of academic and business organizations, mostly from Ohio, won an award for the “Best Application for Advanced Manufacturing” at the Next Generation Application Summit.<br /><br /><a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/white_background.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/white_background.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 10px; float: right; width: 30%; height: 30%;" title="A screenshot of simulation results from an app a team of academic and business organizations, mostly from Ohio, developed as a virtual desktop-as-a-service system for advanced manufacturing processes. The app was named “Best Application for Advanced Manufacturing” at the Next Generation Application Summit, sponsored by Mozilla and the National Science Foundation as part of the US Ignite initiative." /></a>The challenge was sponsored by Mozilla Foundation and is part of the nonprofit US Ignite initiative funded partly by the National Science Foundation. The final round of the challenge, held June 25 in Chicago, showcased demos that focused on communities and cities that use gigabit applications to further economic development and new application development that utilize new high-speed networks.<br /><br />Researchers and engineers from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), The Ohio State University, the City of Dublin, Ohio, Metro Data Center (MDC) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), in partnership with TotalSim, VMware and HP, earlier were awarded $25,000 to develop “Simulation-as-a-Service for Advanced Manufacturing.”<br /><br />Their application (<a href="https://mozillaignite.org/apps/443/">https://mozillaignite.org/apps/443/</a>) allows users to remotely access software and compute resources using a virtual desktop-as-a-service system for advanced manufacturing processes. The team members want to transform how professionals and students can make and learn about advanced manufacturing components through a “simulation-as-a-service” app based on cloud resources and software access. The team envisions many opportunities to provide applications such as this over high-speed local networks.<br /><br />Prasad Calyam, an assistant professor of Computer Science at MU and a former research director at OSC/OARnet and OSU, leads the project. He was joined at the summit by Alex Berryman, a performance engineer at OARnet; Ray Leto, CEO of TotalSim; Rob Kopp, president and chief operating officer of MDC, and Dana McDaniel, deputy city manager of Dublin. Dublin operates DubLink, a 96-strand fiber-optic data network that connects directly to MDC, a regional high-tier data center in Dublin, and OARnet, Ohio’s 100 Gigabit per second statewide research and education network backbone. TotalSim, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) design firm located in Dublin, has partnered with OSC on multiple projects to help small- and medium-sized businesses engage in modeling and simulation.<br /><br />“The service allows for better real-time collaboration between TotalSim’s expertise and the customers, allowing more rapid iterations between user feedback and revised simulations,” explained Calyam. “This decreased time is thanks to the fact that large simulation data-sets are only moved across the OARnet and DubLink fiber networks, and the integrated, secure provisioning of desktop applications (such as Paraview and Microsoft Word) and cloud applications (such as WebEx and Box.net) in the simulation-as-a-service app. External users view the results through a thin-client connection to a virtual desktop but the large data sets and provisioned applications never leave the cloud.”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-boiler-plate field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div><hr /><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></div><p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/computational-science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Computational Science</a></div></div></div>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:12:08 +0000jabel3419 at https://www.osc.eduChancellor Names Shah Executive Director of OSChttps://www.osc.edu/press/chancellor_names_shah_executive_director_of_osc
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">OARnet leader seeks synergies with dual appointment</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/chancellor_names_shah_executive_director_of_osc"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/PankajShah_web_0.jpg?itok=ISZ1-Qik" width="66" height="100" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-11-30T00:00:00-05:00">Friday, November 30, 2012</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p><em>Columbus, Ohio</em> (Nov. 30, 2012) – Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro recently appointed Pankaj Shah as executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.</p><p>Shah concurrently serves as the executive director of the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), a role he’s held since 2005. By leading both technology organizations in their independent missions, Shah will seek closer collaboration between the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and OARnet, creating new opportunities from their combined efforts.</p><p>As a member of the Ohio Board of Regents’ Ohio Technology Consortium, OSC provides academic and industrial research communities with high-performance computing services, cyberinfrastructure and network-based software applications, and workforce training.</p><p>For more than 25 years, Shah has held leadership positions in several private and public communities, developing and managing IT infrastructure, storage systems, networking capabilities and security. Prior to his appointment at OARnet, Shah served as the director of infrastructure for IT services at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc.</p><p>In an earlier stint at OARnet, Shah served a pivotal role in the creation and management of the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC-Ohio) and as a partner in developing the Transportable Satellite Internet System, a distance-learning satellite trailer project aimed for areas where reliable Internet connectivity is unavailable.</p><p>Under Shah’s directorship, OARnet has successfully deployed an extensive statewide optical network backbone for Ohio, while creating and enhancing shared services systems, storage infrastructure, collaborative hosting services and applications through the consolidation and standardization of OARnet’s technology. </p><p>Also under his leadership, OARnet, Com Net, Inc., Horizon Telcom and OneCommunity formed the Ohio Middle Mile Consortium to create a roadmap for a seamless broadband infrastructure in Ohio. Because of this collaboration, Com Net, Inc., Horizon Telcom and OneCommunity were awarded grants that totaled $141.3 million in federal stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; OARnet was a sub-recipient to the three grants.</p><p>In recent years, Shah has identified trends in high-speed data transfer, videoconferencing and hybrid networking. He also has partnered with the private sector for economic development opportunities, and has focused on meeting the emerging needs of the education and research communities.</p><p>Having held prominent positions in the past, such as senior manager of American Society of Nondestructive Testing, engagement manager at Resource One Computer System where he managed the City of Columbus project, Shah continues to serve numerous national leadership roles in networking and broadband policies, including The Quilt and Internet2’s governance and nominations committee.</p><p>Shah received a diploma in mechanical engineering and a certification in advanced tool technology from S.B.M. Polytechnic in Bombay (Mumbai), India. With a master’s degree in computer science and information from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Shah most recently received an executive MBA from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/outreach" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Outreach</a></div></div></div>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:57:17 +0000susan3282 at https://www.osc.eduOSC receives HPCwire award at SC12 conferencehttps://www.osc.edu/press/osc_receives_hpcwire_award_at_sc12_conference
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">OSC received an HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry for the center&#039;s role in NDEMC at SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/osc_receives_hpcwire_award_at_sc12_conference"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2012/images/highlights/hpcwire.png?itok=gkRJor6n" width="100" height="31" alt="HPCwire logo" title="HPCwire logo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Salt Lake City, Utah (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-11-14T00:00:00-05:00">Wednesday, November 14, 2012</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p class="bluelarge" style="color: rgb(0, 63, 135); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Group honors OSC for role with national digital manufacturing initiative</p><p><em>(Salt Lake City, Utah; November 14, 2012) </em>– The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has been recognized in the annual <em>HPCwire</em> Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented today (Nov. 14) at the 2012 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><p>The list of winners was announced live from the <em>HPCwire</em> booth at the event, and a complete listing is available on the <em>HPCwire</em> website, located at <a href="https://mail.uso.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=00a3bbdd669f4139bcd0cc14abae7536&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hpcwire.com%2f" target="_blank">www.HPCwire.com</a>.</p><p>OSC was selected to receive the Editor’s Choice award for Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry, for OSC’s contribution to the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium (NDMEC) to support and enhance the use of modeling and simulation among America’s small and medium manufacturers.</p><p>“This recognition of Ohio’s contributions to NDEMC and industrial outreach affirms the work we have been spearheading for nearly a decade,” said Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., senior director of research at OSC. “The kinds of technology resources available through programs like these are increasingly attractive to businesses who are looking to relocate and to those who want to stay here.”</p><p>OSC was similarly recognized with the <em>HPCwire</em> 2006 Readers’ Choice Award for “Best Collaboration between Government and Industry” for its groundbreaking Blue Collar Computing program. OSC launched the Blue Collar Computing program in 2004 to provide small and medium-sized business – which lack high performance computing (HPC) resources, training, and expertise – with the tools they need to enhance the companies’ competitiveness in the global marketplace.</p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6" style="width: 400px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/HPCwireAward_0.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 12px; width: 350px; height: 262px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td><em>OSC Senior Director of Research Ashok Krishnamurthy (left) and OSC Executive Director Pankaj Shah accept the Editor's Choice Award at SC12 from HPCwire Publisher Tom Tabor.</em></td></tr></tbody></table><p>“NDEMC, public/private partnerships, and a future state resembling agricultural extension service models utilizing academic institutions can jump start this whole cycle for small and medium enterprises (SMEs),” said Tom Lange, director of modeling and simulation corporate R&amp;D at the Procter &amp; Gamble Company. P&amp;G serves as one of NDEMC’s private partners and is a recognized a leader in modeling and simulation among manufacturers. “To grow that ecosystem, it is vital that small and medium-sized businesses have access to the powerful computational and storage resources that OSC provides. That computing power fuels the more precise and accurate models necessary to mimic the actual results of physical tests commonly used to innovate. OSC also provides guiding expertise for emerging new users − who are often just learning how to replace their expensive physical prototypes with ever-more-realistic, faster and more affordable simulations.”</p><p>Last fall, OSC and several of Ohio’s other statewide technology organizations were brought under the umbrella of the Ohio Technology Consortium, or OH-TECH, where Blue Collar Computing was transitioned into Technology Innovation Services program.</p><p>“The consortium now reaches across the expertise of the several fields of technology, including such vital areas as modeling &amp; simulation, high-speed networking, innovative e-learning programs and extensive online library resources,” said Pankaj Shah, executive director of OSC. “I’m proud to say that Ohio’s suite of technology offerings leads the nation in many respects.”</p><p>Funded in 2011 by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, NDEMC is a public/private partnership that seeks to provide midwestern small- and medium-sized manufacturers with access to advanced modeling and simulation resources. OSC is actively supporting 13 of 20 board-approved projects, nine of which involve small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises that have some sort of physical presence in Ohio. NDEMC’s 12 other partner organizations, including resource providers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Purdue University, received similar awards from <em>HPCwire</em>.</p><p>The highly-coveted <em>HPCwire</em> Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global <em>HPCwire</em> audience for the Readers’ Choice Awards, combined with a rigorous selection process for the Editor’s Choice Awards, where winners have been selected by a panel of editorial and executive staff, recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from across the industry. The awards are revealed during the Monday opening reception at the Supercomputing Conference each year, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis. The awards hold the unique distinction of being recognized as the most prestigious recognition given by the HPC community to its own each year.</p><p>“It’s an honor and a privilege to take time during the most important supercomputing conference globally to acknowledge the organizations and the individuals behind them who exemplify the hard work, dedication, and effort that has taken place the past year to develop new technologies that ultimately benefit mankind,” said Jeff Hyman, president and group publisher of Tabor Communications Inc. “The awards represent the highest level of recognition to the leaders and luminaries in the high performance computing industry by our <em>HPCwire</em> readers and the community alike. Our warmest congratulations go out to all the recipients of this year’s awards.”</p><p>More information on the awards can be found at the <em>HPCwire</em> website <a href="https://mail.uso.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=00a3bbdd669f4139bcd0cc14abae7536&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hpcwire.com%2f" target="_blank">www.hpcwire.com</a></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-boiler-plate field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div><p style="text-align: center;">_________________</p><p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a><em>.</em></p></div><p><em><strong>HPCwire</strong> is the #1 news and information portal covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy dating back to 1986, HPCwire continues to be the publication of choice globally by business and technology professionals from academia, government, science, and industry who are interested in high performance and computationally intensive computing. For topics ranging from the latest developments in systems, software, tools and applications, to middleware, networking and storage technologies, HPCwire delivers it all and remains the HPC communities’ most reliable and trusted resource. For additional information, visit: <a href="http://www.hpcwire.com">www.hpcwire.com</a></em></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:45:15 +0000jabel3030 at https://www.osc.eduPankaj Shah Selected to Lead OARnet, OSC's Networking Divisionhttps://www.osc.edu/press/pankaj_shah_selected_to_lead_oarnet_oscs_networking_division
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Columbus, OH - February 14, 2005 - The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)announced today that Pankaj Shah has been chosen as its new OARnet Director.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Columbus, OH</strong> - February 14, 2005 - The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)announced today that Pankaj Shah has been chosen as its new OARnet Director. Shah will officially assume the directorship on March 7, 2005.</p> <p>"We are very excited that we will have a person of Pankaj Shah's stature and talent on our team," said Stan Ahalt, OSC Executive Director. "Pankaj has the skills, background, and organizational capabilities that are exactly what we need for OARnet's future."</p> <p> Shah returns to OSC after a stint as Marquette University's Director of Infastructure for Information Technology Services. Before that, he was responsible for creating and managing OARnet's Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC-Ohio), which he plans to revitalize upon his return.</p> <p>"Many of us who have served on OSTEER have worked with Pankaj Shah in the past and eagerly look forward to working with him in the future," said Dorinda Giles, OSTEER Chair and Xavier University Associate Vice President of Information Systems and Services. </p> <p>Shah cited the establishment of the Third Frontier Network (TFN), the nation's leading state research network, as a major factor in his return. He attributed the support provided by education, government, and businesses from TFN's inception as crucial to its success.</p> <p>"When you view the TFN project as an 'outsider,' you begin to appreciate it even more, said Shah. "I view this as a model project that other state and regional consortiums could replicate."</p> <p>Shah plans to expand upon the unprecedented opportunities created by the TFN for Ohio. Through partnerships, he would like to see the state quickly capitalize on the investment through applications, processes and research components. These assets can be leveraged to the benefit of researchers, educators, research grants and economic development through training opportunities and productivity improvements. </p> <p>"Now that Ohio has this state-of-the-art fiber optics asset and ownership of the network, my goal is to continue forming partnerships, collaborations and alliances statewide and nationally," said Shah. "We must leverage Ohio's investment specifically in education and research areas and more broadly in economic development and job creation." </p> <p>Focusing on emerging needs in research, education, government and economic development, Shah has identified trends in high-speed data transfer, videoconferencing, wireless and satellite-based networking. He has received National Science Foundation (NSF), state, and private funding for several Internet2-partnered and other networking projects.</p> <p>According to Shah, the TFN architecture is designed with scalability as a primary consideration. Researchers in all sectors can now collaborate and leverage OSC's high performance computing resources via TFN. He foresees the TFN providing broadband access to test beds and laboratories through Internet peering across the country and the world.</p> <p>During his previous tenure at OSC, he was an instrumental partner in the Transportable Satellite Internet System, a satellite trailer used for distance learning and special events in rural areas, and at conferences where reliable terrestrial Internet connectivity is unavailable. Shah has developed strong partnerships with industry such as the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), while enabling technologies in the satellite and wireless arenas.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div></div></div>Thu, 31 May 2012 21:29:21 +0000cfahey2717 at https://www.osc.eduOSC's Bill Yang Helps Unveil FBI Computer Security Initiativehttps://www.osc.edu/press/oscs_bill_yang_helps_unveil_fbi_computer_security_initiative
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Columbus, Ohio -- January 5, 2001 -- Bill Yang, Systems Specialist at OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), attended a joint press conference in Washington D.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><img src="/files/press/releases/2001/infragardlogo.jpg" border="0" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5" />Columbus, Ohio</strong> -- January 5, 2001 -- Bill Yang, Systems Specialist at OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), attended a joint press conference in Washington D.C. on January 5, 2001 to officially unveil InfraGard, a cooperative venture he helped create among the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and hundreds of partners around the country. </p> <p>The conference was held to commemorate the successful organization of InfraGard across the United States. Attorney General Janet Reno, top FBI officials and InfraGard's organizing members joined Yang at the press conference, which was expected to be covered by CNN. </p> <p>The conference was held to commemorate the successful organization of InfraGard across the United States. Attorney General Janet Reno, top FBI officials and InfraGard's organizing members joined Yang at the press conference, which was expected to be covered by CNN. </p> <p>InfraGard is a public-private partnership dedicated to the sharing of information about threats to the infrastructure, and the development of trust and relationships that can mitigate the damage a security event can cause. </p> <p>"It is a great honor to see our hard work recognized by the United States Government," Yang said. "OSC is committed to understanding the new risks of the Information Age. Computer security issues often cross jurisdictional lines. OSC has perceived the need for solutions that supercede state and perhaps even national boundaries. InfraGard is a strong first step toward these solutions." </p> <p>The FBI approached Yang in 1996 to help found a professional organization focusing on computer security issues. In cooperation with industrial and academic security officials in the Midwest, the FBI from Cleveland asked OSC to partner in the formation of a national organization. Yang was elected as one of the founding steering board members. </p> <p>FBI Director Louis J. Freeh said, "Computer crime is one of the most dynamic problems the FBI faces today. I am proud of the progress we have made in dealing with this problem by establishing the Infragard initiative and opening the lines of communication between the public and private sectors and the law enforcement community." </p> <p>Prior to the press conference, Yang also received a letter of commendation and award from the United States Government on his service in founding the organization. </p> <p>For more than a decade, OSC has been Ohio's flagship center for high performance computing and networking. OSC's goal is nothing less than to make Ohio the education and technology state of the future. Networking and high performance computing (HPC) are the Center's core divisions with education and technology policy initiatives rounding out the organization. <!--#include virtual="/../kathrynSSI.html" --> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div></div></div>Thu, 31 May 2012 21:29:21 +0000cfahey2761 at https://www.osc.edu